I just talked to my daughter in Carbondale and she said they had about 8 inches too. She said even as close as Marion she heard they had 17 inches and some places had 20. That's a lot of snow. Betsy lives outside of Carbondale and there is a hilly driveway-road to get to their house so they may be stranded for a day or two. Everybody is fine and they do have power and lots of food so they're fine. Thank the Lord!

I woke up, so I thought I'd see if the snow had started snowing yet. Actually, I do that all the time. If I wake up, I go around looking out the windows. I have seen many interesting things doing that expecially on a moon lit night. LOL

For Southern Illinois it is bad Hanne. I believe 8" or 9". It is very heavy and they don't salt the roads unless they are state hwys. They aren't used to much snow here and they don't have that much snow removal equipment either. The neighbor just drove up down the driveway with his big 4wd truck to make a path.